Sitting in the press box at South Brunswick where it's safe. Outside, where the Day One of the GMC Relays is underway, it is windier that Dorothy and Toto ever imagined. With mean gusts blasting up the backstretch, team points are the goal today.

South Brunswick girls aiming to break their own 4xmile record they set last year here. Forget it, not with this breeze. Let's move on

One more thing before the results start coming up here. John Haley, the long-time track writer for the Home News Tribune, won't be here this year for the first time since MTV was a novelty. He was cut loose from that paper and now he's working in the same office as me and Jim Lambert.

He would have been covering this meet but he prefers to cover Middlesex County softball. Hope that 12-inning one-hitter does it for ya, cat.

When will the GMC catch on with the rest of the state and get itself some automatic timing for this relay meet?? Results get recorded on a card on the track, the cards gets transcribed onto a sheet of paper with the top six finishers and that sheet gets typed in

This press box is hardly the ideal working environment. Just now, I heard a reference to John Wilkes Booth. Didn't know it was President's Day weekend.

Wait, there's more. Ever heard of a Cosmic Dog with sweet potato mustard? Didn't think so. These topics and more will be discussed here in the South Brunswick crow's nest.

Some things never change. South Brunswick knocked out a meet record in the first event on the track. Jamie Thompson (64.5), Jamielyn Samper (68.2) and Janae Baker (69.8) won the intermediate hurdles in 3:22.5.

Holy cow, results are extremly slow at this meet, and we -- Lambo and I -- are begging South Brunswick coach Stefan Moorhead to give us first names and top marks from the field events. This meet needs Hy-Tek.

East Brunswick's Corinne Kominkiewicz unloaded the throw of her life -- 139-2 -- in the discus, a personal best by 10 feet and a county record. And just to prove the 139 wasn't a fluke, she tossed a 136-10 on her last throw. She said she was near tears when she heard the distance announced, and she was near tears when I asked her to relive the moment. Congrats, kiddo.

Yes, Lambo and I are still up here in the press box, 90 minutes after the meet ended. The two most thorough track writers in the state, right?